"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Julia Altshuler wrote:
>>
>> hahabogus wrote:
>> > So like the song says Don't
>> > worry...be happy (BTW the composer killed himself). A fixed bedtime
>> > routine works wonders, works kinda like self hypnosis.
>>
>> I googled on "Don't worry be happy" and learned from Wikipedia that the
>> song is by musician Bobby McFerrin. McFerrin is still living. The
>> phrase is an expression often used by Meher Baba. He was injured in a
>> car wreck which caused him considerable pain. He died in 1968. While
>> he did engage in seclusion, meditation, and fasting, and while these may
>> have contributed to his death in some way, no mention was made of
>> suicide.
>
> Snopes has a full debunking of this urban legend:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/mcferrin.asp
>
> Although McFerrin didn't commit suicide, the guy who
> wrote "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag and
> Smile, Smile, Smile" did in fact commit suicide.

Urban legend??!! Oh my God, do you mean McFerrin walks around with random
strangers thinking he killed himself already?